NB. Several EFoE members were at the rally outside the
Royal Courts of Justice. One of the speakers was Maggie Thorburn from
Hounslow and Brentford FoE.

8 August 2018 - Is
Fracking doomed in the UK?

by
Jeremy Leggett

With fracking about to recommence in the UK after 8 years, a
review of progress and prospects is in order. To understand why this latest
fiasco in British energy policy and wider society has come about, it is
necessary to go right back to the beginning, around 2006, when fracking began
in earnest in American shale ….and a multi-hundred-billion-dollar
doomed-to-burst debt bubble began to build.

The authorities in Britain and elsewhere are keen to
talk about the role of arsonists in these fires. But the fact of the matter is
that fires would not have spread unless the forests were tinder dry. And
tinder dry forest is exactly what we expect with climate change. Perhaps they
should talk about climate change!